![]() ![]() In this context, there is a way to download and install Firefox on Windows Vista without touching Internet Explorer, or any other browser for that matter. ![]() While it is obvious that Microsoft will fight a potential forced divorce between Internet Explorer and Windows, and that the removal of the browser component from the operating system won't happen over night, I am the adept of a "better prepared than sorry" strategy. Opera is accusing Microsoft of abusing its Windows monopoly by bundling its proprietary browser with the operating system and of limiting user choices. The Redmond company has already been forced by a 2004 decision of the EU antitrust regulators to sell Windows XP N and Windows Vista N editions for the European market without Windows Media Player. But thanks to an antitrust complaint filled by Opera with the European Union Antitrust Commission, if the succession of events will lead to a similar result as the precedent delivered by the 2004 decision, against the Redmond company involving the removal of Windows Media Player from the platform, Microsoft might just well have to offer Windows without IE. Microsoft is still a long way away from a scenarios where it will have to unbundle Internet Explorer from the Windows operating system. ![]()
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